"Auditorium is a new loft party for lovers of ambient, experimental, downtempo and slow electroacoustic sounds. Expect an evening of inspired music, immersive eight-channel sound, enchanting lighting, surreal decor and mountains of pillows.

"Throughout six weeks in July and August, this series will aim to critically engage with the surrounding environment through sound, and to explore the influences it has on new ways of making and experiencing visual forms."

First Pres. Church of Brooklyn Heights concert series presents Kyle Bobby Dunn's string players and Brooklyn's Dither Quartet in a huge 19th century church I used to live down the street from. Sounds good to me!

"Cinematic suites of prepared piano, transcendental 12-string guitar and emotionally atmospheric songs from three musicians collaborating together for the first time in a contoured programme of ensemble and solo performances.

A one-off concert which brings together experimenal/ eltronica piano player Hauschka, guitarist James Blackshaw, and singer/songwriter Nancy Elizabeth in an extraordinarily fluid live collaboration."

The fine folks at Home Normal present The Boats, an evening of music from The Boats, Danny Norbury, Ian Hawgood, Konntinent, Isnaj Dui, and Simon Scott. Looks very nice, and if you're in or around London on December 20th, it definitely seems worth your time.

I will not be in London December 9th and 10th, but perhaps you will be. The always excellent Room40 present Openframe, featuring Mike Cooper & Pat Thomas, Steinbrüchel, Organ Octet, Tujiko Noriko / Lawrence English / John Chantler (trio), Dolphins into the Future, Tomasz Bednarczyk, and Makino Takashi. Very nice.

I unfortunately will be nowhere near Poland next month, but maybe you will be. The 2009 Plateaux Festival has a lineup featuring Ambient Music Blog favorites Lawrence English, Fennesz, Deaf Center, Morgan Packard, and more.

I have to say, I find seeing ambient artists doing live shows to be pretty boring. I find the music to be pretty useless without some context for, well, use. I'm falling pretty hard here into one side of what an old literary theory professor of mine called the Kant/St. Augustine divide, and I think that's fine. Maybe you have other ideas, and I think that's fine as well.

But I'm also pretty interested in expanding the spirit of what this site has been doing for the last few years, and so I'd like to start thinking about some ways of getting the music I point to on this site out from under your headphones and out into the actual world for use. But in a way that's a bit more indirect than promoting live shows. That's not very interesting to me.

So consider this an invitation for artists, designers, and anyone else reading to collaborate on some kind of project that applies ambient music to the world. I really have no idea what that means, but I'd like to try to do something. If you have an interest, or ideas, or anything, leave a comment, shoot me an email at ambientmusicblog at gmail.com, or berate me via twitter.com/ambientmusic.

Just passing along this note from Joy Wants Eternity. Perhaps some of you reading from these locations can help out.

We need your help. Joy Wants Eternity is heading out on a month long tour in a few weeks and we need help booking a few remaining shows. If anybody wants to help out with a show we'd greatly appreciate it! Any suggestions for venues, bars, art spaces, DIY spaces, house shows, college dorms, in-store appearances, people to contact, bands, to play with, etc. would be awesome as well.
We'd like to fill these dates with something rather than having a day off, so any ideas you have are encouraged! Here's the dates we need to fill:

Sept. 11th - Preferably Missoula, MT but we'd also do something in Spokane,WA
Sept. 12th - in or around Billings, MT.

Stay tuned for announcements regarding a number of Wordless Music
events in 2008 with the Kranky Records institution Stars of the Lid,
including their first New York Cityconcert appearance in seven years,
and the expansion of the Wordless Music series into our third city
nationwide. Also in the works: a series of free Wordless Music
concerts at the historic Whitney Museum uptown.

I attended one of these shows back in the fall, and it was interesting and well done. Looking forward to what they put together for 2008.